House Democrats have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would specify that the rights guaranteed by that document apply only to individuals and not to “corporate” entities. The intention is to undo the Supreme Court’s ruling that allows organizations to spend unlimited money on political
David Ignatius brings up what could be heralds of good economic prospects ahead. (Or is it just a pipe dream?) First, the case that America is entering a new era of energy security: My expert here is Robin West, a friend who is chairman of
The new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is out, and here are some good words that need to be adopted by the rest of the country (as chosen by Kevin Lamarque at Reuters): 1. whoopensocker (n.), Wisconsin You know when something’s wonderfully
Michael Gerson says that there are currently two kinds of conservatives: On one side there are Rejectionist Conservatives, who come in a variety of forms. There are libertarians who view federal taxation, except to fund a few night-watchman roles, as theft. There are tea party
The BCS conferences have reportedly agreed to devise a four-team playoff for the college football championship: College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the
No sooner had I trumpeted the return of this blog than the whole thing went down again. We were online for about an hour. Now we seem to be back. I’ll put up some posts and we can pretend this blog week never happened. (If
Finally! Long time no see. This blog went down on May 1 and just came up again the night of May 3. According to our hosting people, the server went down and then they had trouble moving everything over to a new one. I don’t
Philosopher Michael Marder, with a platform in the New York Times, takes the next step, after summarizing some research as to how peas “communicate” their condition to other peas: The research findings of the team at the Blaustein Institute form yet another building block in
More from that brilliant column by Peggy Noonan, America’s Crisis of Character: There is the General Services Administration scandal. An agency devoted to efficiency is outed as an agency of mindless bread-and-circuses indulgence. They had a four-day regional conference in Las Vegas, with clowns and
We had a post on the report that Pepsi was using a flavor enhancement test that made use of embryonic cells from an aborted fetus. (NOT that they used that ingredient in their products!) In the discussion that ensued, it turned out that although the
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